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AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has directed the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to change the name of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl after her father insisted that an astrologer suggested the name change according to sun sign for her daughter’s good health.
The petition was filed by an Ahmedabad-based man requesting the court to direct the civic body’s registrar of birth and death to change his daughter’s name from letter ‘A’ to ‘Kh’. He had to approach the court because AMC had refused to make any change in the child’s birth certificate.
According to petitioner’s advocate Jaimin Mehta, names of all the family members begin with the alphabet ‘A’. Going by this tradition, the man named his daughter accordingly and the family got the name registered with the civic body. But as the child was not keeping well, the family consulted an astrologer, who prepared a horoscope for the child and suggested that she was required to be renamed by following the sun sign and her name should begin with ‘kh’. Accordingly, the child was renamed.
But when the family requested the civic body for alteration in the birth certificate, the authority at Jodhpur ward, where the child’s birth was registered, refused to change the name saying that the family had named the child and it was not a mistake on part of the office. The family approached the registrar’s office, which also declined the request.
When the lawyer produced the documents before the court, Justice V D Nanavati read out AMC’s reply that the child’s name was properly written in English and Hindi and her father had signed the document. There was no mistake on part of the clerk. But the child’s father told the officials that since the child was not keeping well, an astrologer was consulted. He prepared a horoscope and suggested that the child’s name should be according to the sun sign.
The judge even laughed while reading the reason documented by AMC, and she ordered AMC to make the change as requested by the family by using the power of section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act.
The petition was filed by an Ahmedabad-based man requesting the court to direct the civic body’s registrar of birth and death to change his daughter’s name from letter ‘A’ to ‘Kh’. He had to approach the court because AMC had refused to make any change in the child’s birth certificate.
According to petitioner’s advocate Jaimin Mehta, names of all the family members begin with the alphabet ‘A’. Going by this tradition, the man named his daughter accordingly and the family got the name registered with the civic body. But as the child was not keeping well, the family consulted an astrologer, who prepared a horoscope for the child and suggested that she was required to be renamed by following the sun sign and her name should begin with ‘kh’. Accordingly, the child was renamed.
But when the family requested the civic body for alteration in the birth certificate, the authority at Jodhpur ward, where the child’s birth was registered, refused to change the name saying that the family had named the child and it was not a mistake on part of the office. The family approached the registrar’s office, which also declined the request.
When the lawyer produced the documents before the court, Justice V D Nanavati read out AMC’s reply that the child’s name was properly written in English and Hindi and her father had signed the document. There was no mistake on part of the clerk. But the child’s father told the officials that since the child was not keeping well, an astrologer was consulted. He prepared a horoscope and suggested that the child’s name should be according to the sun sign.
The judge even laughed while reading the reason documented by AMC, and she ordered AMC to make the change as requested by the family by using the power of section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act.
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